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    • Bosch-Valenzuela y Cía collaboration agreement: sensor technology to digitize the Andalusian Agro

    Bosch has recently signed a collaboration agreement with Valenzuela y Cía S.A, an agricultural services and supplies company to help producers optimize their crops by searching for the latest applications and world agricultural technology. In this way, Bosch, a leading company in technology and services, has found in agriculture a new field of application for its MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) sensors, in which it expects to bill, up to 2020, nearly one billion euros thanks to the development of solutions based on the Internet of Things (IoT).

    The last edition of the WOOE managed to bring together about 4,000 professionals linked to the olive sector

    The largest exclusive international fair for olive oil, the World Olive Oil Exhibition (WOOE) has closed its seventh edition with an attendance of nearly 700 production companies and almost 4,000 professionals from the olive sector, HORECA, catering, distributors, buyers, brokers and media of more than 30 nationalities (United Arab Emirates, Japan, China, United Kingdom, Italy or USA). Business, new business opportunities, debate, trends, innovation and networking have been the keys to the success of the WOOE.

    The healthy values ​​of the EVOO and its application in international gastronomy center the Gourmet Area of ​​the WOOE

    The healthy character of Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) and its versatility in international kitchens will be the protagonists of the Gourmet Area at the World Olive Oil Exhibition, the largest monographic meeting dedicated to olive oil, which will celebrate its seventh edition on the 21st and March 22nd at IFEMA-Madrid. Chef Kike Piñeiro has devised a menu to explore different cuisines of the world and demonstrate the versatility of this emblematic product of Spanish cuisine. Through breakfast, appetizer, lunch and dinner, they will show how healthy it is to have this ingredient at any time of the day.

    The aid to the associative Integration, endowed with 1.75M €

    The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment has published on Saturday March 17th, in the Official State Gazette (BOE), an excerpt from the order of March 8th, 2018, which calls for aid for the promotion of the integration of agrifood associative entities of supraautonomic scope, for the year 2018. These aids are part of the set of measures included in the State Plan of Associative Integration 2015-2020, approved in the Sectoral Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development of April 16th of 2015 and will be endowed, for the year 2018, with a budget of 1,750,000 euros.

    Fademur denounces the precarious pensions of rural women

    In the current context of concern about the future of pensions, the Federation of Rural Women's Associations has pointed out that rural women are the poorest face of the pension system, the "most fragile" element, as stated in a press release. press. In the opinion of this organization, this is due to the gender gap that characterizes the Spanish rural environment, where the work of women "has been and is still invisible". Thus, the work of this group in front of agricultural operations is not mostly collected in the Social Security system, without losing sight of the fact that their job opportunities in the field are less than those of men or women in the cities. As a result of all this, when reaching the retirement age, rural women receive the lowest pensions: non-contributory and widowhood.

    García Tejerina pays homage to the murdered rancher, José Luis Iranzo

    The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment, Isabel García Tejerina, has closed the act of homage to the COAG breeder, José Luís Iranzo, where he has expressed the respect and recognition of the entire Government towards Iranzo and the two Civil Guards, Víctor Romero and Víctor Jesús Caballero, murdered three months ago in Teruel.

    Hispatec presents Felipe VI his technology in intelligent agriculture in the Andalusian Digital Week

    The Almeria-based company Hispatec has presented Felipe IV with its advances in smart agriculture, on the occasion of the celebration of the first day of Andalucía Digital Week, during a meeting chaired by His Majesty the King and the President of the Junta de Andalucía, Susana Díaz, together with Minister of Justice Rafael Catalá and various representatives of public and private institutions in the field of the agri-food sector, as well as entrepreneurs in digitalization of the Agro sector.

    UPA, dissatisfied with the Plan of measures to alleviate the crisis of the stone fruit

    In its assessment of the Plan recently presented by MAPAMA to tackle the structural crisis affecting the stone fruit sector, the Union of Small Farmers (UPA) has expressed its dissatisfaction with a measure that, although necessary, qualifies as insufficient "and" a disappointment ". UPA has indicated that the Plan "forgets small family farms and requires a larger budget.

    ASPROCAN estimates that damages caused by the storm in Canarian banana plantations could affect some 9,000 plots

    The Association of Organizations of Producers of Banana of the Canary Islands (ASPROCAN) has made a first assessment of the damage caused to banana plantations of the Islands by the storm of recent weeks, which has brought winds of over 109 km / h and rain They have discharged up to 40 liters of water per square meter. Thus, in the absence of registering in the coming weeks the exact amounts, so far about 3,000 farms have reported claims and more than 7,300 plots have been affected, although the forecast is to reach up to 4,000 farms and 9,000 plots. In some areas of the western islands, estimated losses are around 30% of production.

    Fademur considers successful the feminist strike in rural areas

    The organization of progressive rural women (Fademur) has been proud of the success of the feminist strike in the villages. "The feminist struggle is an exercise in courage that, unfortunately, requires even greater sacrifices in the rural environment, where everyone is known and the population is more permeable to change, so that struggle becomes more complex," he explained. Fademur. Therefore, the organization has been "very satisfied by the millions of women who, with much courage, have taken this claim to rural areas".